For some people with difficult hearing loss, it is possible to resume hearing with the support of an auditory implant (also popular as cochlear implants). These electrical devices are surgically implanted into the inner ear, Converting sound from the surrounding world into electronic signals that are transmitted through the auditory nerve to the brain. Crooked parts of the ear are bypassed, and people – almost miraculously – are ready to hear again. With practice, users of auditory implants out of the world of silence, able to hear the door signal, use telephone, speak and smile with their own friends. Unfortunately, music has the ability to be difficult to enjoy. Soft melodies are made by sharp beeps, beeps and clicks.

People with hearing implants find actually that the giant share of this, in fact they loved the music, now missing. Implant badly transmits the height of the voice and instruments, and the quality (timbre) of music. This has the ability to make it difficult to track the melody, the awareness of the words or the branch of the 1st instrument from the other. As you can hear in our simulation (below), virtually all the raw, raw impressions that ed Sheeran brings to his execution of thinking aloud are lost, leaving the music abrasive and flat.

This bad provision of music through the implant has the ability to have a great impact on the quality of people's lives. Music is everywhere around us, not only at home or at performances, but also at the back of the project in cafes, pubs, shops, TV shows and movies. For people with auditory implants, this has the ability to make it difficult to enjoy something that they used to love to create. People talk to us, in fact that music is 1 of the key things they wish they could do better in their own implant. This gives a problem for engineers and researchers.

The failure of the music

In healthy hearing, the sound of music is captured by the work of thousands of highly sensitive "hair cells" – sensory receptors that respond to small configurations of pressure in the ear, translating the sound into electronic energy, which has the ability to be interpreted by the brain. This unusual sensor system is able to encode tiny swaying sound, which we interpret as notes, instruments, timbre and sensual response. It's this sophisticated coding that allows us to enjoy Mr. Sheeran's melodic voice. In the auditory implant, this system is replaced by a small number of microelectrodes-usually from 8 to 22. These electrodes have all the chances to broadcast only a rather daring information about the pitch, without having more thorough sound information.


 

With the period, some people with hearing implants are ready to adapt to the new hearing, finding methods to enjoy and adore music again. They often find actually what they are required to actively study to playdates music again, in order to adjust to its new experience. Others have decided to light up the data differently, reading the words of the songs, while they heed, in order to make better their awareness. Because the implant is able to transmit the rhythm is much more effective than the sound, some users find, in fact, that have all the chances to enjoy only certain, more rhythmic genres of music (for example, the song of Michael Jackson in our simulator). Some, great, and learned to play instruments in the application of the implant.

Fresh alignment

Fresh hands have every chance to freeze the key to that, in order to help people with implants again enjoy the music. One of the probabilities is the transformation of music tracks or including writing absolutely fresh music on purpose for implants, with properties that have all chances to be more simply transferred to the available technology. For example, scientists have noticed that increasing the volume of vocals and the removal of harmonic instruments improves the emotions of listening to pop music.

Another option is to change the method of processing sounds by the implant before sending signals to the auditory nerve. Some implant manufacturers are now announcing their own advanced technology as the best for listening to music. However, the bulk of implant users still do not have all the chances to enjoy the music.

It is likely that you will need a principally fresh alignment. We believe that the information" narrow space " of the implant can be circumvented by providing sound information through touch. Not so long ago, we took advantage of this alignment in order to make better the ability of implant users to perceive speech in difficult sound environments – it is likely that we can still do better their musical skill.